WCP142

Postcard (WCP142.142)

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Broadstone, Wimborne

Dec[embe]r 7th, 1908

No further news. I think your friend is not quite right. What "Whittaker" says is— "Members take no precedence, but are authorised to place the letters O.M.1 after the G.C.B.2 and before the other Orders."

The G.C.B. is, I think, the highest of the Knighthoods open to civilians, but as precedence only applies to Court ceremonies I can find no statement of it in the Encyclo[pedia]. Just finished draft of Lecture.

Your affectate Pa | A.R.W. [signature]

1
Order of Merit.
2
Knight Grand Cross; a class belonging to The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath).

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Status: Draft transcription [Postcard (WCP142.142)]

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Transcribed by Vongsachang, Hurnan [2010-07-08] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2011-11-23] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP142,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 11 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP142